Process of forming ornamental plates.



No. 642,196. Patented lan. 30, |900. H. F. BELCHER.

PRDGESS 0F FDRMING UBNAMENTAL PLATES.

(Application Bled Apr. 21, 1898.)

(No Modal.)

E Cw agw V4 from a series of tiles, which consists in binding the tiles into a suitable plate, then heating the tiles and then bending such tiles to the desired shape.

2. The process of forming ornamental plates from tiles or the like, consisting in placing the tiles in proximity to each other With their edges slightly separated, then inserting Inetallic cross-pieces between the edges of the tiles and providing the Whole with a su rrounding frame, then immersing the tiles and associated parts in an electrolytic bath and depositing metal upon the cross-pieces so as to bind lthe tiles together, then heating the tiles until they become plastic, then forming the tiles into the desired shape.

3. As an article of manufacture, an orna- HENRY F. BELCHER.

Witnesses:

DONALD M. CARTER, l-IoMER L. KRAFT. 

